A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Word

World Religion
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A unit of language, often with creative and divine power, as in the Logos of John's Gospel or the sacred sound Om.

Detailed Definition
The "Word" (Logos) in John 1 is God's creative self-expression, through which all things were made. In Hinduism, the Vedas are the eternal "Shabda-Brahman" (Sound-God). In poetry, the word is sacred. It is not merely a sign but a vessel of power and presence. The poet's task is to find the right words to capture a glimpse of the divine Logos. This concept elevates poetry to a participatory act in creation, a striving to echo the primordial, creative Word of God.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Christian poetry, Word (Logos) creates: “In the beginning—Word, and Word was God”; In Islamic verse, Word is Quran: “Revealed speech—Word that guides and heals”; In Jewish poetry, Word is covenant: “Ten Words—Word carved in stone and heart”; Contemporary poets treat Word as power: “Poem written—Word that cracks open silence.”
Additional Notes
The Word (Logos in John 1, Shabda in Hinduism, Kalam in Islam) is creative, revelatory, and divine—“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made” (Psalm 33:6); in Sanskrit tradition, Om is the primordial sound; poets revere language as sacred medium, exploring how utterance shapes reality, and how silence between words may hold even deeper truth.
Also Known As
Logos Dabar Verbum
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